Southsea - Ryde Swim (1938)

The Solent, Hampshire. At Southsea we see a large crowd of people on the beach watching 20 men starting off on a swim across the Solent to Ryde on the Isle of Wight (three and a half miles). The sea looks pretty rough. Several shots of the swimmers. English long-distance champion Cecil Dean is seen making good progress; the judges' launch is apparently unable to keep up with him! A large crowd waits at Ryde to see Dean arrive; he climbs up some steps to the quay and is handed a trophy cup by a lady. His time was just over two hours. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-195